Aaron Taehwan Kim received his Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry from the Case Western Reserve University in 2011, Master's degree in Food Science and Biotechnology in Kyung Hee University in 2020, and is now pursuing Doctor of Philosophy in Food Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He worked as a teaching associate and a precollege program instructor during the PhD program. His research topics mainly include obesity, food preference, and Caenorhabditis elegans